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Well it's 150 times more resistant to electric current than that salt dough.
Some articles even went as far as to say that skeletal muscle tissue is resistant to cancer, and furthermore, not only to cancer, but of metastases going to skeletal muscle.
Throw a drug at it, and resistant cells will grow back.
"I recall one patient who was at that point no more than a skeleton encased in shrinking skin, unable to speak, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications.
It turns out that these long-lived mutants are more resistant to all these diseases.
If you look at birds, which live a long time, cells from the birds tend to be more resistant to a lot of different environmental stresses like high temperature or hydrogen peroxide, things like that.
They're more resistant to these kinds of stresses.
But here's the problem: sometimes patients become resistant to the drug, and then years after they've been declared to be cancer free, they come back.
So we wanted to figure out how these ovarian cancer cells are becoming resistant to this drug called Cisplatin.
Well basically that means that this protein is changing from the sensitive cell to the resistant cell.
And in fact, it might be changing the cells themselves to make the cells resistant.
In fact, it means that if a patient comes in and they're resistant to this drug, then if we give them a chemical to block this protein, then we can treat them again with the same drug.
Some bacteria figured out how to stay away from penicillin, and it went around sort of creating its little DNA information with other bacteria, and now we have a lot of bacteria that are resistant to penicillin, because bacteria communicate.
And at first they're resistant.
And I was initially resistant, because I always think poetry can stand alone by itself.
Ebola seems to be rearing its head with much too much frequency, and old diseases like cholera are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
Because she has been suffering from a superbug called C. diff, and it's resistant to antibiotics in many cases.
And insulin resistance, as its name suggests, is when your cells get increasingly resistant to the effect of insulin trying to do its job.
If you ask yourself, what's a cell trying to protect itself from when it becomes insulin resistant, the answer probably isn't too much food.
And some of them were very resistant, actually, to being there.
Luria looked at people just before they entered the scientific age, and he found that these people were resistant to classifying the concrete world.
He found that they were resistant to deducing the hypothetical, to speculating about what might be, and he found finally that they didn't deal well with abstractions or using logic on those abstractions.
President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, but we soon discovered there are many kinds of cancer, most of them fiendishly resistant to therapy, and it is only in the last 10 years that effective, viable therapies have come to seem real.
That means that only the most toxic salamanders can avoid being eaten— and only the most resistant snakes will survive the meal.
On the right, ancient Gothic, cut in the resistant material of steel by hand.
And it mentions, for instance, that cotton is very resistant to textile dye; about 60 percent washes off into wastewater.
Robust systems are also damage resistant.
They're certainly incredibly damage resistant.
We probably wouldn't still be here today if we weren't so resistant to change.
Basically, the massive use of antibiotics around the world has imposed such large selection pressure on bacteria that resistance is now a problem, because we've now selected for just the resistant bacteria.
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